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Northern Cape EFF leader Shadrack Tlhaole has pledged to storm and dismantle Orania after the party’s protest at the Premier’s Office. The post EFF leader pledges to storm Orania in push ...
You won’t find a Walmart or a Starbucks in Orania, but the small town in South Africa’s Northern Cape province boasts its own schools, currency, businesses and language, all aimed at ...
Inside the 'Apartheid town' of Orania: Part 2 To live in Orania, you must be Afrikaner, a group that descends from the Europeans who first colonized South Africa. For some, the town recalls a ...
A Northern Cape Afrikaner-only enclave, Orania, has become the latest contributor to the Government of National Unity scuffle that has rocked the country following the general elections.
However, Orania has close links to the family of Hendrik Verwoerd – the man who introduced apartheid – and, as a consequence, the town is now seen by many as a final outpost of apartheid.
Orania in the Northern Cape recently took delivery of a large battery energy storage system (BESS) that will help the town avoid the first six stages of load-shedding. Orania’s electricity ...
Not a single resident of Orania in the Northern Cape had voted at the official polling station by late yesterday, IEC officials have reported. However, a few hundred metres away, about 240 out of ...
Orania: the land where apartheid lives on On the eve of Nelson Mandela’s funeral, a white Afrikaner settlement in the Northern Cape region wants no part of black South Africa ...
A teacher-in-training at a school in Orania - a whites-only town in the Northern Cape - stands accused of statutory rape after allegedly having sex with a minor.
Orania has been in the spotlight this week after comments made by Gauteng MEC for education, Panyaza Lesufi.
The idea of a whites-only town existing in democratic South Africa may be difficult to understand, but the people of Orania say it is the only way to protect their culture, writes the BBC's Pumza ...